Making an audio CD on Nero

[orfajackson]

I made an audio CD on NERO.

The source material is WAVE files. I went to NERO to record and I selected "Make an Audio CD". Easy.

I burnt the CD. When I am done the files are not WAVE files. They are *.cda files ! What happened? I want to record on a CD and the WAVE source files to be WAVE files on the CD I burned.

How do I do this?

Thanks guys

orfa

[hech54]

CD Audio (.cda) tracks are audio files that can be stored on CD media. The .cda files are representations of CD audio tracks and do not contain the actual pulse code modulation (PCM) information. Cda files can be played only from a CD-ROM. To test a .cda file, either try to play a different .cda file from your CD-ROM or try to play a .cda file from a different CD-ROM. Copied from the CD-ROM to the hard disc it cannot be played. This is format used for encoding music on all commercial compact discs. If you buy a CD from a store, the music on that CD is stored in CDA format.

In other words....if your goal was to create an audio CD that plays in your CD player....you and your software did it correctly.

[Midzuki]

Actually, there are no .cda files on a Audio CD.
Windows "invents" them on-the-fly, and they work as "shortcuts" to the
actual tracks on the stamped/recorded layer of the disc.
I presume the true "raison d'être" of the non-existent "CD File System"
was attempt to please the copyright whores.


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[ZQX]

Or maybe you want to make a data CD containing the wav files?

[AlanHK]

I burnt the CD. When I am done the files are not WAVE files. They are *.cda files ! What happened? I want to record on a CD and the WAVE source files to be WAVE files on the CD I burned.

That's what an audio CD looks like when your PC reads it.
It should play normally in a CD player.
Try a commercial audio CD, you'll see the same ".cda" files.

[olyteddy]

Does the CD play ok? That's what counts...